Undulatory locomotion of finite filaments: Lessons from Caenorhabditis elegans

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Berman, R S ^a   Kenneth, O ^a,b   Sznitman, J ^a   Leshansky, A M ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HYDRODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; PROPULSION EFFICIENCY; RESISTIVE FORCE THEORIES (RFT); SINGLE-CELL EUKARYOTES; WAVEFORM OPTIMIZATION;

BIOLOGY; BIPED LOCOMOTION; EFFICIENCY; MOTION PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; PROPULSION; WAVELENGTH;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 84881129930     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/7/075022     Document Type: Article

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